Fearmongering

Fear mongering - deliberate spreading of frightening and exaggerated rumors of an impending danger to purposely arouse fear in order to manipulate the public. Article “Fearmongering” in English Wikipedia has 39.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 8 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Fearmongering” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Fearmongering”, its content was written by 182 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 228 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 387 times in English Wikipedia and cited 633 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #21524 in April 2016
• Global: #59906 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #66311 in July 2008
• Global: #106251 in July 2008

There are 7 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Fearmongering		39.4116
2	Spanish (es) Campaña de miedo		32.132
3	Serbian (sr) Sejanje straha		25.788
4	Indonesian (id) Kampanye menjual ketakutan		23.6871
5	French (fr) Culture de la peur		21.7398
6	Japanese (ja) フィアモンガリング		21.6182
7	Arabic (ar) إشاعة الخوف		20.1689

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Fearmongering" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fearmongering		1 480 004
2	Indonesian (id) Kampanye menjual ketakutan		15 846
3	Japanese (ja) フィアモンガリング		9 154
4	French (fr) Culture de la peur		6 685
5	Spanish (es) Campaña de miedo		2 746
6	Arabic (ar) إشاعة الخوف		2 329
7	Serbian (sr) Sejanje straha		1 523

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Fearmongering" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fearmongering		6 266
2	Japanese (ja) フィアモンガリング		203
3	Spanish (es) Campaña de miedo		141
4	French (fr) Culture de la peur		84
5	Indonesian (id) Kampanye menjual ketakutan		61
6	Arabic (ar) إشاعة الخوف		21
7	Serbian (sr) Sejanje straha		7

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Fearmongering" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fearmongering		182
2	French (fr) Culture de la peur		18
3	Serbian (sr) Sejanje straha		9
4	Spanish (es) Campaña de miedo		7
5	Arabic (ar) إشاعة الخوف		5
6	Japanese (ja) フィアモンガリング		4
7	Indonesian (id) Kampanye menjual ketakutan		3

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Fearmongering" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fearmongering		1
2	Arabic (ar) إشاعة الخوف		0
3	Spanish (es) Campaña de miedo		0
4	French (fr) Culture de la peur		0
5	Indonesian (id) Kampanye menjual ketakutan		0
6	Japanese (ja) フィアモンガリング		0
7	Serbian (sr) Sejanje straha		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Fearmongering" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Fearmongering		387
2	Japanese (ja) フィアモンガリング		102
3	Arabic (ar) إشاعة الخوف		95
4	Indonesian (id) Kampanye menjual ketakutan		37
5	Spanish (es) Campaña de miedo		5
6	French (fr) Culture de la peur		4
7	Serbian (sr) Sejanje straha		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إشاعة الخوف
en	English Fearmongering
es	Spanish Campaña de miedo
fr	French Culture de la peur
id	Indonesian Kampanye menjual ketakutan
ja	Japanese フィアモンガリング
sr	Serbian Sejanje straha

Best Rank

English: #66311 07.2008

Global: #106251 07.2008

Best Rank

English: #21524 04.2016

Global: #59906 12.2009

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